[12435] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.7F: problem with xloadimage in graphics locker for images onroot
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (oliver thomas)
Thu Aug 18 17:52:57 1994
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 1994 17:52:51 EDT
From: oliver thomas <othomas@MIT.EDU>
System name: navigator
Type and version: KN02ba 7.7F
Display type: PMAGB-BA
What were you trying to do?
Place a GIF image in the background with
xloadimage -onroot filename.gif
What's wrong:
The program bombs with the error:
navigator> xloadimage -onroot owl.gif
owl.gif is a 320x200 GIF87a image with 32 colors
Default gamma for IRGB image is 2.20
Compressing colormap...9 unique colors
xli: X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) on 0x0
XGetWindowAttributes on root failed.
Note that the same image displays fine in a window. Seems to be a
problem of writing to the root window.
What should have happened:
Image should have displayed in root.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
xloadimage man page. Also see discuss transaction oxwindows [10184],
where user reported problem to olc.
Thanks,
-oliver
